{"title":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","authors":"M. Atwood","doi":"10.1145/632716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to CHI 99 and to the SIGCHI community! The CHI conference provides a forum for people to meet, both formally and informally, to share experiences, and to learn. We trust that you will find here the intellectually exciting and personally rewarding forum that brings many people back to this conference year after yearyThe CHI conference is sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). SIGCHI is comprised of an international group of researcher, practitioners, educators, students, and others who share an interest in one or more of the many facets of human-computer interaction. SIGCHI is committed to the parallel activities of advancing the field of human-computerinteractiona and exchanging information within the SIGCHI community. This conference also provides an opportunity for you to learn more about SIGCHI activities and to explore taking an active role in those activites. You can do this by stopping by the SIGCHI booth, attending the SIGCHI Business Meeting, or talking with any of the Executive Committee members.While the CHI conference is the largest and most visible activity of SIGCHI, we also support conferences on computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), virtual reality software and technology (VRST), user interface software and technology (UIST), design of interactive systems (DIS) and intelligent user interfaces (IUI) and creativity & cognition (C&C).SIGCHI also distributes the quartely SIGCHI Bulletin to memebers, as well as other who are interested in human-computer interaction. In addition, SIGCHI supports the Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), and Interactions, a magazine focused on practitioners.The SIGCHI Development Fund supports activites that are proposed by SIGCHI members. If you have ideas for advancing our field and communicating those advances to SIGCHI members we encourage you to review the Call for Proposals, which appears on the SIGCHI web site and frequently in the SIGCHI Bulletin.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134017400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"StoryMat: a play space for collaborative storytelling","authors":"Kimiko Ryokai, Justine Cassell","doi":"10.1145/632716.632883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632883","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the design and prototype of StoryMat: a soft interactive play mat that records and recalls children's storytelling activities.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132979119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noriko Ito, Naotake Fujita, H. Shimazu, N. Nakajima, Keiji Yamada
{"title":"TransWorld: paper world as avatar of electronic world","authors":"Noriko Ito, Naotake Fujita, H. Shimazu, N. Nakajima, Keiji Yamada","doi":"10.1145/632716.632845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632845","url":null,"abstract":"Today, most of paper documents in offices are just like avatars of electronic documents because such paper documents are computer print-outs of original digital data in office computers. We propose a document management model, called TransWorld which supports integration of the paper world and the electronic world. In the model, users' actions to paper documents are automatically reflected to their original electronic documents observed by desk-mounted scanners and vice versa. An experimental system based on the TransWorld model is also described.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129386885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VIDA: (Visual Information Density Adjuster)","authors":"Allison Woodruff, J. Landay, M. Stonebraker","doi":"10.1145/632716.632730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632730","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple studies have shown that clutter or sparsity in visual representations can have negative effects ranging from decreased user performance to diminished visual appeal. We have developed a system that assists users in the construction and navigation of visualizations with appropriate visual information density. This system, VIDA (Visual Information Density Adjuster), applies a cartographic principle to minimize clutter and sparsity in visual displays of information.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"22 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131193149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHI 99 special interest group on natural language in computer-human interaction","authors":"N. Green, D. Novick","doi":"10.1145/632716.632934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632934","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing interest in human-computer interfaces that use natural language in some way, researchers and practitioners who work on these interfaces are finding that two general fields of research, CHI and natural language processing (NLP), are complementary and converging. In the CHI research community, there have been investigations on a number of related issues such as usability of text and graphics in on-line documentation, hypertext, spoken-dialogue interfaces, and language/audio resources. In the NLP research community, there is increasing interest in use of natural language, both spoken and written, in intelligent multimodal and multimedia interfaces, e.g., International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-96), COOP 98 Workshop on The Use of Herbert H. Clark's Models of Language Use for the Design of Cooperative Systems, 1998 AAAI Workshop on Representations for Multi-Modal Human-Computer Interaction, and Coling-ACL'98 Workshop on Content Visualizations and Intermedia Representations (CVIR'98).Some technical issues of possible interest to both communities are:1. For what and under what conditions is NL effective in the human-computer interface? For what types of tasks or communication? How does modality influence its effectiveness? How does its effectiveness in computer media differ from that in traditional forms of communication such as face-to-face conversation and print media? How do performance limitations of NLP technologies (e.g., .speech recognition errors) influence effectiveness?2. What are the critical technical requirements for NLP to be effective in the human-computer interface, e.g., coordination of generated text and graphics, incremental and robust interpretation, and modeling turn-taking and initiative in dialogue? What technical requirements arise in transferring technology developed for one language to systems for users of another language (e.g., languages using different writing systems)? How should effectiveness of NLP technologies be evaluated?","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133482021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bringing sketching tools to keychain computers with an acceleration-based interface","authors":"G. Levin, P. Yarin","doi":"10.1145/632716.632881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632881","url":null,"abstract":"We report the use of an embedded accelerometer as a gestural interface for an extremely small (\"keychain\") computer. This tilt- and shake-sensitive interface captures the expressive nuances of continuously varying spatio-temporal input, making possible a set of applications heretofore difficult or impossible to implement in such a small device. We provide examples of such applications, including a paint program and some simple animation authoring systems.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133587266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An introduction to the java foundation classes (JFC)","authors":"F. Culwin","doi":"10.1145/632716.632795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632795","url":null,"abstract":"The Java event source/listener protocols are fundamental to the construction of GUIs as the user's interactions with the interface generate events whose listeners supply the required behaviour. The Java 1.2 Java Foundation Class (JFC) user interface toolkit supplies a collection of interface components that have a richer visual appearance and increased functionality compared with the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) that it replaces.Knowledge of a widget set is necessary, but not sufficient, for the production of artefacts that have a high degree of usability. State Transition Diagrams (STDs) provide a notation for the expression of required behaviour at the initial design stage. STDs can also be used to inform the design of classes within a three (application, presentation and translation) layer architecture; can also be used to validate the behaviour of the completed artefact and used to derive usability metrics.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132629513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Hofmeester, Anthony Dunne, William W. Gaver, M. Susani, Elena Pacenti
{"title":"A modern role for the village elders","authors":"K. Hofmeester, Anthony Dunne, William W. Gaver, M. Susani, Elena Pacenti","doi":"10.1145/632716.632746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632746","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the Presence team describes how, by thinking of older people as active participants in society, rather than as needy and dependent, innovative designs have been developed for systems that help elderly people remain part of the community. The team has done this by involving users in the design process by, engaging them in a dialogue with designers that has allowed both sides to influence each other.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115674994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A process for research on aging and computer use","authors":"S. Mead, Victoria A. Spaulding Johnson","doi":"10.1145/632716.632912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632912","url":null,"abstract":"A process is described for producing interface design and training interventions aimed at making new technologies more accessible to older adults. This method has been used to examine the usability of three computerized systems that older adults are likely to encounter. One of the three systems, automatic teller machines (ATMs), is used an as example of how the proposed intervention design and evaluation process has been successfully carried out.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116379137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OwnTime: a system for timespace management","authors":"Roy Rodenstein, G. Abowd, R. Catrambone","doi":"10.1145/632716.632841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632841","url":null,"abstract":"We describe OwnTime, a system for facilitating timespace management, and discuss the results of a user study comparing the disruptiveness of meeting establishment without and with the system. The study indicates that the OwnTime system shows potential for improving users' time management. We also raise relevant issues about computer mediation in traditionally interpersonal tasks and note further work to be done in areas such as context-aware and wearable computing.","PeriodicalId":263696,"journal":{"name":"CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116485800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}